Yamada & Queyras

With fiery fanfares, Grażyna Bacewicz’s Overture begins a trip through an experimental past: Some thought Hector Berlioz was crazy after the world premiere of his ›Symphonie fantastique‹ in December 1830. It broke with all the musical habits of Parisian society; the orchestra sounded more colourful and more delicately shaded than ever before; the string parts fan out in an unprecedented way; the harmon, Henri Dutilleux’s ›Tout un monde lointain …‹ also resounds with entirely new palettes of musical expression that seduce the audience i